Associate Professor

PhD, UC San Diego

Canada Research Chair in International Security and Ethnic Conflict

steve.saideman@mcgill.ca

For more information, see Prof. Saideman's Home Page.

Recent Awards

Awarded the second annual Political Science Students' Association Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Research Interests

Foreign Policy Analysis, Ethnic Conflict, Security Studies, International Relations Theory, International Organization

Current projects

Democracy At Risk? Political Competition, Electoral Institutions and Ethnic Conflict, with Johanna Birnir and David Lanoue (in progress).

Fighting Alone, Fighting Together: Multilateralism At War, with David Auerswald and Michael Tierney (in progress).

Recent books

Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres, For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Stephen M. Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, editors, Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders, London: Routledge, 2008.

Recent articles and book chapters

Stephen M. Saideman, “More Than Advice? The Role of the Joint Staff in the American Foreign Policy Process,” in Inside Defense: Understanding the U.S. Military, ed. by Derek S. Reveron and Judith Hicks Stiehm. NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.

Stephen M. Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, “Causing Security, Reducing Fear: Deterring Intra-State Violence and Assuring Government Restraint,” in Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders, edited by Stephen M. Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, London: Routledge, 2008.

Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Stephen M. Saideman, “Conclusion: Dilemmas of Insecurity: Implications For Research and Policy,” in Insecurity in Intra-State Conflicts: Governments, Rebels, and Outsiders, edited by Stephen M. Saideman and Marie-Joëlle Zahar, London: Routledge, 2008.

David Steinberg and Stephen M. Saideman, “Laissez Fear? Assessing the Impact of State Intervention in the Economy on Ethnic Conflict,” International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming.

Stephen M. Saideman, “Ties Versus Institutions: Revisiting Foreign Interventions and Secessionist Movements,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 40, No. 3 (September 2007): tba.

Erin K. Jenne, Will Lowe, and Stephen M. Saideman “Separatism as a Bargaining Posture: A Panel Data Analysis of Minority Demand,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44, No. 5 (September 2007): 537-556.

Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres, “Pie Crust Promises and the Sources of Foreign Policy: The Limited Impact of Accession Processes and the Priority of Domestic Constituencies,” Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 3 (June 2007): 189-210.